You may feel compulsive and out of control today. When confronted with life-altering decisions related to your physical health, relationships, mental well-being, financial status, or career, you may find yourself unable to disassociate from your stronger emotions. Your feelings can, if left unchecked, compel you to focus on choices that satisfy you in the present but offer little in the way of long-term rewards. Before you can regain your ability to make rational decisions today, you may need to examine why your desires are taking their current form. You will likely discover that you are erroneously striving to satisfy an emotional need with literal incentives that cannot adequately address your deeper issues.

Accepting that our impulses often have an emotional component empowers us to get to the root of the desires that have the potential to disrupt our lives. A simple whim grows in strength when we believe, consciously or unconsciously, that fulfilling it will serve to satisfy some deeper emotional need. We may not immediately recognize that our impulses are linked to lingering baggage or unaddressed issues, but with a degree of self-examination we can easily discern what we truly desire. As a result of this practiced emotional awareness, we can address the needs of our hearts and souls without resorting to a trial-and-error approach in which we regard every whim as equally pressing. The attraction you feel toward compulsive behaviors today will diminish when you take steps to discover the concrete root of your impulses.